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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



an inch long, entiriah ; capsule pedicelled. Procumbent in beds in clefts of rocky, 



on the heights above Casa-Oancha, and elsewhere in the alpine region. 

 Myriophyllum (bis lower down, in the Paraniera at Culuay ; compare Chili, and No. 2 



California and Oregon) ; like M. verticillatum. In a lake deeply sunk in the crest of 



the Andes, yet probably 14,500 feet above the sea. 

 Paronychia ? (No. 5) ; a second species. Woody base ; leaves linear, an eighth of an inch 



long, acuminate ; large scarious stipules among the flowers ; sepals apparently five, 



inferior; styles two ?. Frequent in the alpine region. 

 Nov. gen. Cactac. (No. 3 ) ; a third species. Stems lying in bundles ; larger and more 



Woolly than the second species, the fruit and stony seeds also larger. Frequent in the 



environs of Casa-Cancha ; in the distance, resembling flocks of sheep reposing on the 



green sward. 



Ribes (compare No. 17 lower down, in the Paramera). Growing in sheltering clefts of 



rocks in the alpine region. 

 Saxifraga Peruviana, Sternb. (No. 11 ). Pubescent, with the leaves all trifid ; but in ex- 



posed situations, sometimes stemless with the leaves simple or undivided. Growing on 



rocks high up on mountain-peaks, above Casa-Cancha, above the village of Alpamarca, 



and in other localities. 



Fragrosa multifida (bis No. 4 lower down, in the Paramera at Culuay), Frefjuent in the 

 environs of Casa-Cancha, and elsewhere in the alpine region. 



? (No. 6). Cespitose, from underground woody branches ; leaves linear, a little 



broader however in the middle, pointed; usually a solitary terminal floret ; capsule a 

 fifteenth of an inch in length, subrotund, sulcate, the commissure broad. In the envi* 

 rons of Casa-Cancha. 



? (No. 7); a second species with entire leaves. The leaves larger, lanceolate, 



acute at each end, densely tomentose on the upper surface. Growing on the crest of the 

 Andes. 



(Oreomyrrhis ? No. 2 ; recorded as) Ferula ?. Two to four inches high ; leaves multifid ; 

 umbels simple, with about ten involucral leaves ; mericarps oblong, five-costate. In the 

 environs of Casa-Cancha, and elsewhere in the alpine region. 



Galium (bis No. 25 lower down, in the Paramera at Banos) ; the small species. In the 

 environs of Casa-Cancha. 



Valeriana (No. 15); leaves spatulate, lanceolate; scapes entirely naked, two to three 

 inches high. In the environs of Casa-Cancha. 



(No. 16) ; perhaps distinct from the last. Leaves linear, obtuse; capit. sessile. 



Growing on the crest of the Andes. 



(No. 17). Leaves radical, succulent, attenuate, lanceolate, entire; scap. one to 



four inches high, with two broad entire leaves ; flowers crowded in a globose, or some- 

 times ovoid capit. On the Alpamarca mountain-peak. 



Gen. Valerianae. (No. 1). Succulent, and said to be esculent; root fusiform; leaves an 

 inch in length and breadth, obtuse, surrounding a central cake of flowers, all even at 

 the surface and densely congested. On the Alpamarca mountain-peak. 



Gen. Cichorac. (No. 1). Stemless; the leaves lanceolate, somewhat lyrately dentate; a 

 central flower as large. as that of Taraxacum, but white, or sometimes pale pink; calyx- 

 scales broad at base, biserial, imbricate. In the environs of Casa-Cancha. 



Gen. Cichor. ? (No. 1). Stemless ; leaves spatulate, lanceolate, entirish ; a central very 

 large flower ; calyx-scales 3-4-serial. Growing on the crest of the Andes, along the 

 Canta route. 



